[PATCH v2 1/1] arch/fault: don't print logs for pte marker poison errors

[Borislav Petkov]

On Fri, May 10, 2024 at 11:29:26AM -0700, Axel Rasmussen wrote:
> @@ -3938,7 +3938,7 @@ static vm_fault_t handle_pte_marker(struct vm_fault *vmf)
>  
>  	/* Higher priority than uffd-wp when data corrupted */
>  	if (marker & PTE_MARKER_POISONED)
> -		return VM_FAULT_HWPOISON;
> +		return VM_FAULT_HWPOISON | VM_FAULT_HWPOISON_SILENT;

If you know here that this poisoning should be silent, why do you have
to make it all complicated and propagate it into arch code, waste
a separate VM_FAULT flag just for that instead of simply returning here
a VM_FAULT_COMPLETED or some other innocuous value which would stop
processing the fault?

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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